I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.
I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.
One day a student asked Taiga, "What is the most difficult part of painting?" Taiga answered, "The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult."
But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If ...
The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.
Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.
These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs an...
In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five peop...
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude our students into believi...
If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for student, as a father, mother, he will be better than the teacher, who read all the books, but has no love for the cause, nor to the students. If the t...
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can decla...
Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.
Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.
Clarice Starling: I graduated from UVa, Captain; it's not exactly a charm school.
[last lines] Mrs. Robinson: Elaine, it's too late! Elaine: Not for me!
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
